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The Newsletter of the www.TrulyRichClub.com Issue Number 253 • December 2019

From Bo’s Brain:

God Wants to Increase Your Blessings


Do you want God to increase your blessings?
If your answer is a resounding “Yes,” then follow this rule:
Increase the 4 Ws. No, I’m not talking about increased weight, waistline, wrinkles, and whatever, but the 4 Laws of
Wealth: Worth, Work, Worship, and Wisdom.
I have a very simple message for you this month: God wants to increase your blessings. What am I saying? Don’t be
complacent. Don’t be content with the status quo. Don’t be stuck with where you are. Don’t be limited with the boxes that
people have put you in. Don’t be trapped by your own low expectations. Because let me say it again, God wants to increase
your blessings.
Every year, I go to Israel. I lead an annual pilgrimage of terrific persons to the
land where Jesus walked, lived, died, and rose again. What a privilege. I’ve been
leading pilgrimages to the Holy Land for more than twenty years now.
And every time I lead a pilgrimage, I ask myself these questions: “How can I
make this year’s pilgrimage better than the last one?” “How can I bless the pilgrims
more?”
The pilgrimage last year was already fantastic. But I tell you, this year, we
raised it one level higher.
I do the same thing with every book I write, with every seminar I give, with
every business deal I make. I do it even with every date I have with my wife. I ask
myself, “How can I bless my wife more? How can I increase her blessings?”
I do the same thing with The Feast. Every week, I always ask myself, “How
can I make this week’s Feast better than last week’s Feast?” “How can I bless you
more?”
Why do I do this?
Because I believe God is NOT about decrease but about increase. God is not about shortage but about surplus. God is
not about poverty but about plenty. God is not about having enough but about having more than enough. God is not about
adequacy but about abundance.
Even scientists are telling us that the universe we live in is an expanding, growing, increasing universe.
Go for increase!

May your dreams come true,

Bo Sanchez


Contents: 1 From Bo’s Brain • 2 It’s All About Values by Sha Nacino • 3 Steps to a Rational Christmas Shopping by FQ Mom Rose Fres Fausto
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It’s All About Values


by Sha Nacino

I am currently joining a coaching program. Every time I would talk to my coach,


he would ask me, “What are your wins today, Sha? What values are you learning from
your wins?”
Then we would also talk about my current struggles. He would ask me the same
thing. “What values are you learning from your struggles? What values will help you
move forward?”
Here’s an example.
One of my wins was that I was able to spend time with my family last November
1 to 5. The values there are gratitude and love. I am grateful that I was able to spend
time with my family. I felt so loved by them and I love them too, that’s why I went
home to our province to be with them.
I am writing this a week before the Global Authors Summit that my team and
I organized. We have eight international speakers from Singapore, Malaysia, India,
Canada, and the United States who will fly to the Philippines to speak at the summit.
This week, my struggle is finding enough time to do all the preparations for the
upcoming Global Authors Summit. The stress level is so high.
The values I am learning and the values I need to move forward are joy, trust, love, commitment, and creativity.
I’ll do everything with joy and love. I trust God. I trust myself. I trust my team. I trust our suppliers. I trust our
speakers. I trust that everything will turn out the best way.
I commit to doing what I need to do no matter how hard. I will
also unleash my creativity in finding solutions to some problems.
Prior to the coaching program, the old me would be so stressed
out. The new me is embracing the values I am learning and the values
I need to move forward. It’s a shift in perspective and it’s making a big
difference.
Last night, while my brother and I were having dinner, he said,
“Sha, I noticed that you are more chill and relaxed these days amidst
problems. I now understand. It’s because you believe 100 percent that
things will turn out for the best.”
He said this because he just attended the first part of the Trilogy
program I attended.
My friend, everything is about values.
The blessings are opportunities for us to be the best version of ourselves.
Like what Coach Jem, one of my coaches, shared with me, “The challenges are vehicles for us to exercise our values,
our real essence.”

I wish you love, joy, and peace!

Sha Nacino is a trusted global speaker on gratitude, creativity, and productivity. She is the founder of the HR Summit Global™,
Overseas Filipinos Summit™, Global Authors Summit™, and World Gratitude Summit™. As of this writing, Sha is happily single who
dreams of meeting her one true love soon. Meanwhile, she enjoys writing books, giving talks, and teaching people how to write books
through her “90-Day Book Writing Challenge,” which she shares at shanacino.com/write. You may reach Sha at info@shanacino.com.


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Steps to a Rational
Christmas Shopping
(using Behavioral Economics Principles)
by FQ Mom Rose Fres Fausto

Do you shop at the last minute? Or on an empty stomach? Do you shop alone or with companions? Do you have a
list? Do you start with big-ticket gift items?
Chances are, you already have your set ways of doing your holiday shopping. I wish to share with you some steps
you may consider so you don’t blow your savings or exhaust yourself to celebrate the birth of the Baby in the manger. I
don’t think He’d like that to happen to you. I guess He would want you to be a bit more rational in doing your Christmas
shopping. So let’s apply some Behavioral Economics principles in the steps.
Behavioral Economics (B.E.) is a relatively new field that is the fusion of Economics and Psychology. It highlights the
social, psychological, and emotional aspects in the actual human behavior, as opposed to the rational (always maximizing
utility and minimizing cost) assumed in traditional Economics.
In today’s lingo, what we’re trying to do is to hack our predictably emotional shopping behavior so that we don’t end
up miserable after the holiday season. Here are the steps.

1.Have a shopping plan. Treat it like a mission with time, strategy, and end goal all listed down. Choose your
shopping venue well to avoid driving from one place to another. Time is a valuable resource. Calendar a shopping
appointment with yourself. In B.E., this is called a commitment device. This will help you prepare mentally for the
event, instead of doing it on a whim.


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2.Sleep well, eat well. Have a restful sleep at night, then have a good breakfast taken at a strategic time. That is, not
too early so as not to be hungry after only an hour of shopping. Protect yourself from the perils of the B.E. principle
called ego depletion. It is the human tendency to make irrational decisions when we’re in a “depleted state” (i.e.
hungry, angry, etc.)

3.Leave the credit card. If you’re not yet disciplined in the use of your mighty plastic, don’t bring it. The B.E. principle
called pain of paying states that we feel the pain more when we pay with cash compared to signing those charge
slips. What’s more, shopping with cash automatically puts a stop when the cash supply runs out. But if you want
to bring your credit card just as a “security blanket,” agree on a trigger with your spouse or FQ Buddy, similar to a
password that should be activated by both of you before you can start using it. I’ll leave that up to your creativity.

4.Self-affirmations before shopping. B.E. studies show that when we remind ourselves of our positive traits before
we go shopping, we tend to shop less. This, my friend, is the very basis of retail therapy. Someone who feels
terrible would need more stuff to feel better about herself. The problem with this therapy is that it seems to be
the opposite of the meaning of the word therapy (treatment). At best, it’s palliative. But of course, retailers don’t
want to use that word.

5.Dress up well. We always hear the advice to shop in comfy clothes but please don’t overdo it. You still have to
look good (comfortably so). Why? Salespeople are only human and they have a tendency to treat well-dressed
customers well, and do the opposite to those who are not. I know a story of someone who was not treated well by
the saleslady because she wasn’t properly dressed. To show her financial capability, she exaggerated her purchases
on that day. So we see two irrational behaviors at work here. Unfortunately, the cost was carried by the customer.

6.Schedule a break. Hungry stomachs and tired feet make irrational decisions—i.e., ego depletion discussed in no. 2.

7.Shop alone. We are affected by our companion such that when she starts buying stuff that’s not within our budget,
we might do the same. This is called mob/herd/pack mentality—our tendency to be influenced by peers in our
behavior. Moreover, there’s also pressure to make the purchase right away if someone’s waiting for us.

8.Stick to the plan. Detours will most probably increase your purchases, or at the very least, waste your time.

9.Buy the less expensive items first. There is a B.E. principle called anchoring, which is the human tendency to use
the number first suggested to us as a basis or anchor (no matter how unrelated the number is). So, if we’ve already
made a big-ticket purchase at the start, chances are, it would be easier for us to purchase higher-priced goods after.

10.Record your purchases. Once you get home, or as soon as practicable, update your Excel file and input the items
you purchased together with prices and tick off the items done. Ticking off gives a sense of accomplishment. If
you’re not yet done, plan your next trip and follow the ten steps all over again.

FQ Mom Rose Fres Fausto was an investment banker turned full-time homemaker and now a writer and speaker on money and
family, a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, and a Behavioral Economist, having trained under Dan Ariely, Father of B.E. Richard
Thaler, and recently completed a B.E. course at the Harvard Business School. She wrote bestsellers Raising Pinoy Boys, The
Retelling of The Richest Man in Babylon (English and Filipino versions), and FQ: The nth Intelligence. She has a weekly column in
PhilStar.com and regularly contributes to other magazines. She is the grand prize winner of the first Sinag Financial Literacy Digital
Journalism Awards in 2014, and honored as Sheroes (She-Heroes) Awardee in 2019. Follow her on FB and You Tube as FQ Mom,
and IG and Twitter as theFQMom, or visit FQMom.com.


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Last WORD

You Increase When You Seek God


But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
(Matthew 6:33)


If you seek God first, increase will happen. Because God will add “all these things” to your life.
I see this in my own life. As a young teenager, I put God first. When I did this, at the back of my mind, I resigned myself
to a life of poverty, to mediocrity, to a very narrow religious world. Because I thought that was what being religious meant.
Here I was, expecting that my life would become boring, dull, and monotonous. I guess that was how my classmates
saw me. My name, “BO,” must have meant “boring and old,” because they saw me go to the chapel and read the Bible
every day.
But the very opposite happened.
When I was thirteen, I started serving God. I started preaching, composing songs, playing the guitar, leading worship,
organizing events, writing skits, raising funds . . .
When I was fourteen, I started the Light of Jesus, worked for the poor, and lived in the slums.
When I was fifteen, I was already crisscrossing the archipelago, sharing the Good News.
When I was sixteen, I won a Bible quiz that made me travel the world.
I remember that school year, our English teacher asked everyone to report to class about “What I Did Last Summer.”
My classmates said the usual stuff that kids say: “Last summer, I watched a movie.” Or, “Last summer, I played
basketball.” Or, “Last summer, I went to the beach.”
When I gave my class report, I said, “Last summer, for forty-one days, I traveled to twenty-one cities in Israel and all
over Europe—all by myself. I went to the Sea of Galilee where Jesus calmed the storm. I visited Mt. Calvary where Jesus was
crucified. And I entered the empty tomb where Jesus rose from the dead. After that, I went to the Vatican where the Pope
lived. I checked out the Eiffel tower in Paris. I ate pizza in Venice, saw the red light district in Amsterdam, and ate sausages
in Frankfurt. I had to go through a lot of dangers, too. I almost got bullied in Austria, almost got robbed in France, almost
got molested in Germany, and almost froze to death in Zurich, Switzerland . . .”
You can just imagine the reaction of my classmates. Everyone’s jaw was on the floor.
To this day, my life is exciting.

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Believe me, if you put God first, your life will be exciting, too.
I urge you: Put God first. And He will add all these things into your life.

My Spiritual Error

Jesus didn’t say, “Seek only the Kingdom of God . . .”


Jesus said, “Seek first the Kingdom of God . . .”
What does that mean? It means that after you seek God, you’re going to seek something else second, and something
else third, and something else fourth, and so on.
Once upon a time in my spiritual life, I made an error. I thought God wanted me to focus on Him and to forget
everything else. Today, I realize God wants me to focus on Him and to flourish everything else.

Fanaticism Has Caused So Much Pain

If you look at history, you’ll see that different religions have spawned their own
fanatics. What are fanatics? Fanatics are people who focus on their religion and forget
everything else. Sometimes, they forget their families, or their health, or their work, or
their recreation—for the sake of their religion or their church.
Fanaticism is NOT the will of God. Throughout history, religious fanatics cause so
much pain, so much murder, so much war . . .
All religions will have their fanatics—Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Budhism . . .
Sadly, many times, the fanatics become the models for their religion. They become the
religion’s superheroes. They become the religion’s benchmark. And everyone else will
measure their lives against this extreme benchmark—and, thus, find their lives horribly
inadequate.
But it’s not religions per se that create fanatics. It’s the twin evils of ignorance and
insecurity that create fanatics.

Misunderstanding Jesus

It’s easy to become a fanatic if you select certain Bible verses and misinterpret them. For example, it’s easy to
misunderstand Jesus when He said, “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and
children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:26).
Why did Jesus use the word “hate?” A lot of misguided people have taken that verse and have caused so much
heartache in families.
The Greek word for “hate” used here is miseo, and Bible scholars say miseo can also mean “love less.” In other words,
Put God first before your family. (The newer Bible versions reflect this second meaning.)
Jesus could never have meant “hate your family” because all over the Bible, God says, “Children, obey your parents,”
and “Husbands, love your wife the way Christ loved the Church,” and “Wives, submit to your husbands . . .” (Here’s a basic
rule of reading the Bible: Let Scripture interpret Scripture.) According to Paul in the book of First Timothy, you can’t be a
pastor, elder, or deacon if you’re not a good husband and a good father.

We Don’t Have an Insecure God

Imagine if one day, I called my two sons and told them, “Benedict and Francis, I want your 100 percent focus on me
and me alone. I want you to attend to my every need. Forget about your school and forget about ever getting a job and
forget about ever getting married. Focus on me, your dad, alone.”
Sick, right? If I did that to my kids, it means I’m a very selfish, emotionally unstable, insecure, and neurotic father.
But some people picture God to be like that. They picture God telling us, “Focus on Me and forget everything else.”
If God did that, then there’s something wrong. We’re worshiping an abusive, selfish, and neurotic God.
Alas, some people relate to that kind of God.


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Faulty Logic

Many years ago, I attended a huge archdiocesan Charismatic gathering. In that prayer meeting, a leader
shared this story:
One day, his daughter talked to him and said, “Daddy, it’s my eighteenth birthday this Friday. I know Friday is also
your prayer meeting day. But just this once, can you skip your prayer meeting so that I can have dinner with you?”
And he answered his daughter, “Sorry, what you ask for is impossible. God comes first in my life.”
And the crowd actually applauded him. I didn’t. I couldn’t.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t put top priority on our spiritual activities. We
should. For example, I always tell people to commit to The Feast each week. Don’t
let a little rain stop you from coming. Don’t let a little late-night party on Saturday
stop you from coming. Yes, you need to put God first.
But the Charismatic leader’s example was absurd. There are fifty-two prayer
meetings in a year. Your daughter celebrates her eighteenth birthday once in a
lifetime.
Let me point out his faulty logic.
First of all, the prayer meeting is NOT equal to God. The church is NOT equal
to God. The ministry is NOT equal to God.
It’s because of this fanaticism that there’s such a thing called as PKS or
“Pastor Kid’s Syndrome.” It’s so common, they invented a name for it. They’ve noticed that some pastor’s kids rebel against
religion. Why? One reason is the kids end up resenting God for stealing away their parents from them. (Misunderstanding
the word “hate” in Luke 14:26 is deadly.)
But God did not take away their parents from them. It was these parents who imagined their God at war with their
kids. Which is insane.
When my first son was born, holding him in my arms, I told myself, “From now on, I’m a part-time preacher, and a
part-time writer, and a part-time entrepreneur—but a full-time dad.” If I succeed in everything else but fail as a father, I fail.

The Blessing of Balance

In my spiritual journey, I’ve realized that God does not call us to be FANATICS; He calls us to be FRIENDS.
God does not call us to escape the world and reject it; God calls us to engage the world and redeem it.
What is the opposite of fanaticism? Balance.
At this stage of my life, I’ve finally discovered the blessing of balance. Which goes to show that I’m now an old soul.
(Just my soul; my body is still young!) Because spiritual thinkers say that one sure sign of maturity is that you realize that
balance is everything. As Thomas Merton said, “Happiness is not about intensity but balance.”
Let me now talk about how balance applies to our finances.

Eight Kinds of Wealth

Yes, God wants you to be rich.


Jesus said, “I have come that you may have life and have it in abundance” (John 10:10).
But what is abundance? Abundance is not measured in pesos or dollars. To me, abundance means experiencing
God’s love in every area of your life. Abundance is not about billions but about balance.
After living in this world for many decades, I’ve discovered eight kinds of wealth. These are eight expressions of
God’s love for you. If you seek God first, Jesus says that God will add “other things” to your life. I believe these eight kinds
of wealth are these “other things.”
Here they are:

1. Faith

You’re rich if you have a loving relationship with a loving God.


Many religious people worship a fanatical God who is more concerned with His religion than with His children.


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Many religious people worship a fanatical God who is impossible to please. No matter what they do, He
is always angry, or irritated, or annoyed, or offended.
I’m sorry, but that’s not my God.
My God is a God who—even before I do anything good—is already celebrating my goodness. A God who really, really,
really likes me.

2. Fire

You’re rich if you’ve discovered your life purpose, your God-ordained mission—and you’re fulfilling it every day.
You’re rich if you know you’re living your destiny.

3. Family

You’re very rich if you have abundant love in your family. The greatest investment in the world isn’t business, real
estate, or the stock market; The greatest investment in the world is to spend time with your family.
My weekly schedule revolves around dates. I have a weekly “romantic date” with my wife. I have a weekly “boys
date” with my sons. I have weekly “family date” with my wife and kids. And I have a weekly “extended family date” with all
my sisters and their husbands and their children. My life is so rich because I’m rich in my family life.

4. Friends

You’re very rich if you have faithful friends—friends you love and friends who love you.
To have this kind of wealth, you need to do two things:
First, choose to be a friend. Be a phenomenal friend—and you’ll attract
phenomenal friends, too.
Be a person of class.
I’ve met these people. You feel God’s love in them. When people talk to
you, you don’t text on your phone. You give them your undivided attention.
You also give uncommon courtesies such as opening doors and going out of
your way to greet people. When you’re eating at the table, you serve them
before filling your own plate.
When you speak, people experience God’s love. As the Bible says, “Let
your conversation be always full of grace” (Colossians 4:6).
Second, choose your friends. Drop people who abuse you or don’t
respect you or look down on you. Look for people who lift you up and bring out the best in you.
Don’t just accept the most available people; attract the most abundant people.
One of the greatest treasures in life are your friends.

5. Fitness

God wants you to be rich in your health.


I do a lot of things. I write eighty essays a month. I preach three hundred times a year. I lead five ministries and support
six other ministries. I run twelve personal businesses. When people ask me where I get the physical energy to do all that,
I tell them, “I bless my body every day.” I bless my body by feeding it with the most nourishing, water-filled, enzyme-rich
food available. I bless my body by breathing exercises every day. I bless my body with meditation and stretching every day.
I bless my body by exposing myself to sunlight every day. I bless my body by walking every day.
Bless your body and your body will bless the world.

6. Faculties

You’re rich if you’re constantly learning.


I urge you: Learn something new every day. Acquire new skills. Expand your world. Read new books. Listen to wiser
people. Ask great questions. And experience new experiences.

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By the mere fact that you’re attending The Feast, you’re enriching your mind. Not only the messages
at The Feast itself, but at The Feast, you’re constantly bombarded with various ways of enriching your mind:
You’ve got books to read, seminars to attend, small groups to join, and ministries that will make you learn.

7. Fun

You’re rich if you can laugh every day.


Filipinos are blessed because we have the ability to laugh at our problems.
Sadly, we never imagine God laughing. We imagine God only as serious or sad or solemn or scary—but never smiling.
But my experience of God is that He’s a funny God. He must laugh a lot.
Many years ago, I remember preaching to this huge crowd. And I felt proud
about how fantastic I was as a preacher. As I was thinking all these thoughts, all
of a sudden, I fell off the stage. Except for the spotlight, it was really dark. So I
stepped off the stage. At one point, people were listening to me and the next
moment, I vanished. The spotlight started searching for me. Finally it found me: I
was on the floor.
I didn’t hurt myself. Only my pride was injured. And I began to laugh.
Because I felt God was laughing, too. It was though God was telling me, “Don’t
take yourself too seriously.” I’ve learned the hard lesson that humility comes from
being humiliated.
Here’s something important: Fanatics cannot really have fun. So, you know
you’re not a fanatic if you have time for play.
People ask me, “What do you do for fun?” I tell them, “Life is my giant
playground.”
Yes, it’s true, my work is my play. My ministries and my businesses are not
work. I’m having too much fun. Whether it’s writing a book or preparing for a talk or organizing an event, all this is play
for me.
But whenever I spend time with my family and friends, I feel I’m in heaven. Eating pizza with my family and friends
while laughing at old stories is so refreshing to me.

8. Finances

Finally, the eighth kind of wealth is about money.


Money may not be the most important thing, but it affects every other important thing in your life.
One day, I was talking about health to my friends. And I encouraged them to drink fresh coconut juice—probably the
best beverage in the world—because it’s filled with enzymes, nutrients, and trace elements. Someone complained, “But,
Bo, compared to softdrinks, buko juice is expensive!”
At another time, I was talking to my friends about having a date with their spouse, their kids, their parents each
week. Again, someone complained, “But, Bo, where will I get money to go to restaurants every week?”
At another time, I was encouraging people to read books and attend seminars. Again, someone complained, “But,
Bo, buying books and going to seminars will cost serious amounts of money.”
And at another time, I was telling people to give more than their tithes. Again, someone complained, “But, Bo, if I
keep on giving, I don’t have anything left for my needs!”
I repeat: Money may not be the most important thing, but it affects every other important thing in your life.
So I encourage you to open your life to more of God’s financial blessings—to experience the eight kinds of wealth.
Seek God first. And He promises that He will add all other things unto you.

May your dreams come true,

BO SANCHEZ


Issue Number 253 • December 2019 Page 10
Are you looking for strong connections?
Here’s where you can connect with the
Source of Miracles.
Hi!

A few weeks ago, while talking a brief walk in the mall, I managed to overhear a few teenagers grumbling about
the Wi-Fi connection.

“I’m going to die! There’s no Internet connection here!” one of them said.

“Let’s go to another mall. I hate it here. I can’t even post in IG!” another said.

They kept grumbling about the slow connection, and about how they can’t check their comments and likes on
social media, and about how they’re going to just “die” without Internet.

It made me think.

Their concerns are legitimate, but not in the way you might think.

Hear me out.

Of course, they wouldn’t die without Internet connection.

But it made me wonder why they were so desperate for it. What do Facebook, Instagram, Viber, and all other
social media platforms give us anyway? Why do we spend so much time connected to the Internet?

“Ah,” I thought. The answer was right there.

People want to be connected.

People hunger for connection. They want it so bad, they think they’d die without it.

Relationships are so important, and people try to pursue it in different ways. Nowadays, we find it in social
media—in the likes and comments and shares that we receive, in the validation we feel when people say good things
about our posts. We became so addicted to social media because it made us feel “connected.”

But it’s not enough. People are still sad. People are still hungry for connection. People are still desperate for
attention. And they keep finding it, keep searching for it, keep pursuing it in all the wrong places.

It becomes a vicious cycle that never ends.

My friend, I have a message for you.

GET CONNECTED TO THE TRUE SOURCE.

I understand that there’s a big hole in our hearts. But this is an emptiness that only solid, real, and true connections
can fill.
People resort to addictions because they need one thing: LOVE.

Friend, I understand your need for connections.

I’m also addicted to it, myself.

But I’m addicted to being connected with GOD. With my family. With my dear friend. Real people. Real relationships.
Real connections.

I’d like to invite you to connect with God. Join me, travel with me, journey with me.

Let’s go to where Jesus, the Living God, walked, preached, breathed, lived, and died.

Join Me in a
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Come with me to the Holy Land.

It’s a living, breathing, miracle of a place.

The first time I set foot in Israel—the Promised Land—I cried. It was so overwhelming to be at the place where
salvation was bought and paid for with the Blood of Christ.

I want you to experience the same overwhelming blessing.

You can walk where Jesus walked.

We’ll go to Calvary where Jesus was crucified; Bethlehem, where Jesus was born; and Galilee, where Jesus
preached; and so many other incredible places.

It’s always a joy to see the actual places that you read in the Bible. It’s like the Bible coming alive—in technicolor—
before you.

I’ll be bringing with me a friend priest.


He’ll celebrate Mass with us every day.

I’ll also be bringing with me my fellow leaders.

It’ll be a ball!

We’ll have lots of fun, I can assure you.

Even now, I’m praying for all those who will go with me (I call them pilgrims): May God give my pilgrims a deeper
spiritual connection. May the Lord inspire my pilgrims to new directions in their life. May my pilgrims discover their
mission and embrace it more fully, through this pilgrimage.

I see a pilgrimage as a long holy retreat—except that instead of staying in one place, we’re constantly moving.
We’re moving towards God.
If you want to join me and be my pilgrim, e-mail us at  beaconlightevents+pilgrimage@gmail.com now.

May your dreams come true,

Bo Sanchez

P.S. Muslims go to Mecca at least once in their lifetime. I think Christians


can take a pilgrimage once in their lifetime, too. I’m personally inviting
you to join me to Israel on February 3, 2020. For details, e-mail us at
beaconlightevents+pilgrimage@gmail.com now.

P.P.S. Why do I call it “Receive Your Miracle” Pilgrimage? Because that’s


my earnest prayer for you. That as you seek God in the pilgrimage,
your heart will open wider to receive His great miracle for your life. For
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